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A long time ago you said you felt that a person needed a minimum of 100 hours on the MK-5 to be able to be remotely "safe", and even then they're serious babes in the woods.. Is this still the case? Or is it now the case that you can do a 2 week course and be ready to do mixed gas exploration at 100m? The impetus for the question comes from the December 22nd update for the Wa-Too expedition which has this quote, "John and Andrew took off work for 4 months to join the Wakulla 2 project and arrived on September 15, 1998 expecting to train on the MK5s for two weeks before the kickoff date." It implies to me they felt that two weeks of training was all they needed before the kickoff date of the project.. With time spent doing other things, like rebreather prepping, sleeping (even just 6 hours a night), exercise, etc. I find it hard to believe they were able to get 100 hours in underwater in under two weeks. Of course, since I've never dove a rebreather, I probably don't realize that it's just as easy as others say. But then again, you said it needed time to master as well... <g> Any word on that tape? Thanks, Ken "Say, is that your Captain Marvel secret decoder lunchbox you got hanging back there?" - Anon E. Mouse -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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